How to Use mushroom cloud in a Sentence

mushroom cloud

noun
  • Then the mushroom cloud started to move up the sky and over us.
    — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Wu said it could be seen as a mushroom cloud or even a gesture.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Sand from the desert below was swept up into the mushroom cloud.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The mushroom cloud of flame and hot gas was visible from dozens of miles away.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2023
  • Rare mushroom cloud-like formations have been seen over the fires.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2021
  • Nina dresses as an atomic bomb and her hair is a mushroom cloud.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 June 2024
  • Above his head, in a thought balloon, is a vision of her chair, with a mushroom cloud over it.
    — Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Then the glass of the windows shook and a mushroom cloud of smoke and flames billowed out from the trees.
    — Abigail Hasebroock, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • As a coup de grâce, a bright blast flashes and a mushroom cloud rises on the horizon.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • Deterring crime does not require the threat of a mushroom cloud.
    — Joseph S. Nye Jr., Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The days-long blaze created a mushroom cloud of deadly fumes that could be seen for miles.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The blast at Beirut's port formed a mushroom cloud and could be heard in the city's furthest outskirts.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The unknown model had cotton cut into the shape of a mushroom cloud pinned to her bathing suit.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Less than a second later a fireball erupts, then turns into a mushroom cloud.
    — Joyce Sohyun Lee, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But in Richland the mushroom cloud is a point of pride for many students and alumni.
    — Annette Cary | Tri-City Herald, oregonlive.com, 9 June 2019
  • For the man who set all this in motion, the mushroom cloud was unfolding before his very eyes.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 13 July 2018
  • The explosion and a fiery mushroom cloud sent people running for their lives.
    — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The collapse set off a brown mushroom cloud over the Lebanese capital.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2019
  • What would be left might look more like a rustic stew than a dashing hero ready to walk away and admire the mushroom cloud.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The cause of the explosion, which sent a huge mushroom cloud into the sky and flattened much of the port, is still unknown.
    — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The blast created a huge mushroom cloud and shockwave that was felt as far away as Cyprus, hundreds of miles away.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 5 Aug. 2020
  • Each impact creates a fireball about as hot as the core of the sun, followed by a radioactive mushroom cloud.
    — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
  • The countdown ended with a huge explosion, sending a mushroom cloud of dust into the air.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • On the right, the mushroom cloud of a bomb looms over swirls of factory smoke, the scene a motley milieu of muddied grays and browns.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The truth is large explosions on the ground also produce the iconic mushroom cloud shape, due to simple physics.
    — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Video footage shows the blast from several angles, sometimes struggling to show the entire mushroom cloud in the frame.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The explosion sent up a mushroom cloud 2 miles high and shattered windows 50 miles away.
    — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Then one strike hit a Russian Ural truck, creating a massive mushroom cloud over the spot.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
  • No fireball had seared the city, no blast wave had crumbled buildings and buried the inhabitants, no dark mushroom cloud had spread over the sky.
    — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Ever since the backyard bomb shelter went the way of tail fins, survival in the face of mushroom clouds has seemed highly relative.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017

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